A former employee for the City of Oakland speaks out after he received an alert from his credit card company notifying him that his personal information was on the dark web.
An ex-worker whose info was exposed spoke out Thursday, calling the situation a "disaster."
"This morning, I woke up to a credit card alert saying my information was leaked onto the dark web," Cruise said. "My social security number. My date of birth. My name. My home address."in the Oakland ransomware attack that was first detected a month ago. "We're all scrambling right now to go to the different credit bureaus to put security freezes on our accounts, put fraud alerts on our accounts," Cruise said.
Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo said Thursday that the city is still negotiating with the hackers.
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